Leo Averbach

Leo Averbach was born and raised in South Africa, lived on a kibbutz in Israel for 5 years before moving to London. He was married for 20 years, fathered 3 children and then divorced. After he remarried, he returned to Israel and now lives in Jerusalem Hills, where he writes and runs a pottery studio. A few years ago, he decided to resurrect the journal chronicling the breakup of his marriage and recovery that became the basis for his book "Breakup: Enduring Divorce."

BREAKUP: enduring divorce

Breakup is a brutally honest and surprising divorce memoir, written as a journal in real time. The narrative interweaves the story of Averbach's painful divorce with his therapy in a deeply-reflective, intimate manner, revealing how he changed and eventually came through his ordeal better for it.